The ambassador will remain an ambassador

The Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak, after returning from Washington, will represent the interests of one of the Russian governors in the Federation Council. This was reported by Vedomosti with reference to sources close to the presidential administration.

According to the publication, Kislyak will receive a new post after the elections in September. At the same time, it is not specified whose interests of 16 heads of regions going to the elections will be represented by the ambassador. Until September, one of the applicants should name him among his three candidates for senators.

“The question of the employment of a sour, after he leaves the post of Russian ambassador to the United States and returns to Moscow, is practically resolved. Most likely, he will apply for the senator’s chair,” an informed source told Interfax. “It can be said with a high degree of probability that Kislyak will be included in the“ senatorial ”three of the candidates for the post of head of the National Republic in the September 10 elections.”

Viktor Ozerov, a member of the Committee on Defense and Security, believes that Kislyak will be in demand after leaving the post of ambassador. “This is an experienced and authoritative diplomat, he has a huge potential for work in the foreign policy sphere,” Lake said. “I know him very well when he held the post of permanent representative of the Russian Federation under NATO. In this position, he showed himself in the best way.” However, a member of the SF recommended waiting for official information about the arrival of Kislyak to the upper house.

It was reported that Kislyak should return to Russia until the end of July. His successor will be the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Anatoly Antonov. In May, the State Duma approved his candidacy for the post of ambassador to the United States.

In May, it was also reported that Russia put forward Kislyak to the post of director of the UN Bureau to combat terrorism, the new UN structure. However, a number of countries - members of the UN Security Council refused to coordinate this candidacy. As a result, Vladimir Voronkov became the director of the bureau. Before this appointment, from July 2011, he was a regular representative of Russia at international organizations in Vienna.

Kislyak served as an ambassador in Washington since July 2008. Meetings of the employees of the campaign headquarters Donald Trump with the Russian ambassador before the president’s entry as a reason for numerous scandals. On February 13, Michael Flynn, adviser to Trump for National Security. It turned out that he misinformed Vice President Mike Pence regarding the details of his conversations with Kislyak. Journalists found that in the conversations held in December 2016, even before the inauguration of Trump and Pence, issues of American sanctions against Russia were discussed. Flynn, not being an official at that time, did not have the right to affect this topic in a conversation with the Russian ambassador.

In March, Peskov said that Kislyak did the usual work of the diplomat , meeting with many American officials. The presidential spokesman also noted that the ambassador has repeatedly met people from the environment of presidential candidates, both Trump and his rival Hillary Clinton.